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Tracks

“Love is the burning point of life” – Joseph CampbellThanks to Jane Pitts for using in a unique context the four words that became the title track, and Tom Baumgartner for telling me about it. Susie Lee managed to capture the image of the couple on the cover, the exact pose I had envisioned almost a year before she took the candid photo. It really says it all, combined with the burning building which I wouldn’t have thought of without Diane’s input. Of course, without Diane, I may have never finished the record. I may very well have burned to a crisp.Anyway, this is why I never put “thank you” credits on my records: I’m leaving people out. I just know it.

Here’s where the album concept really kicks in. I felt very literally this way…so, it stays on the record. Sappy? Sure. But sometimes an emotion is so purely sappy that you just have to tell it like it is.

I don’t think I should apologize any more for being sappy than I did for doing a country song. Ok, maybe my vocal performance evens it out. Anyway, for me, this song has a happy ending. Your results may vary.

Nope. Not going there. Just a song. I’m not gonna get into it. Let it suffice to say that I conceived this one afternoon, and wrote it and recorded it the next day. Only then did I feel certain that the record was complete. Oh, I played piano on this one track. That’s not in the credits.